February – March 2019

On the heels of heightened recycling contamination standards, single-use plastic reduction efforts, and overall pushes for sustainable social and business practices, the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) launches SWANApalooza 2019, the premier technical gathering for professionals to explore environmental solutions for integrated solid waste management, coming to Boston, Massachusetts from February 25–28.

Its first time held in New England, SWANApalooza will focus on “Building the Future,” offering an inaugural view of the future of solid waste management through the lens of public sector entities, private companies, and consultants in the area. Boston offers a premier backdrop for the event, leading the charge in zero waste initiatives and serving as an example for cities in the Northeast and across the country for environmental priorities.

At SWANApalooza, explore opportunities for domestic recycling, marine litter initiatives, landfill technical operations, and safety best practices with experts, government officials and top professionals from a range of industry areas. Gain entirely new perspectives, embrace industry progress, and discover the future of solid waste and recycling at SWANApalooza in Boston!

This year’s SWANApalooza hosting chapter is SWANA Southern New England. For information on the Extended Producer Responsibility Summit, or the Chapter Party, both offered by SNE SWANA, please follow this link.

Please join EBC for a program planning luncheon of the EBC PCB and Emerging Contaminants Subcommittee on Monday, February 25, 2019. The purpose of this meeting is to develop and plan PCB, TSCA, and Emerging Contaminants programs and topic-specific committee meetings for the following six months. This meeting includes lunch. Please be sure to specify any dietary restrictions when registering to attend.

EBC Members interested in participating and becoming more involved in the EBC PCB and Emerging Contaminants Subcommittee are welcome to attend. Once registered, make every attempt to attend this meeting in-person. Program planning is more successful when there is high in-person attendance.

This is an EBC member only event. If you are a non-member and are interested in participating in this meeting, please call or email the Environmental Business Council.
Email: ebc@ebcne.org
Phone: 617-505-1818

This EBC Climate Change program explores the design and liability issues associated with designing resilient systems that are able to withstand increased demands due to climate change impacts. Traditionally, design professionals rely on historical data to design systems that have a 50 to 100 year timeframe. Due to the impacts of climate change, historical data may not be the appropriate basis of design for future systems. This EBC program will explore the dilemma that design professionals have in designing systems with uncertain design parameters. It will also explore the potential exposures and liabilities associated with designing for an uncertain future.

Group Registration
For EBC Members only – register five attendees for the price of four!Discount will automatically be applied during online registration.

Fine PrintCancellations must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 22 for a refund. No-shows will be charged. Please keep in mind that online registration for this program will close at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, February 25. Walk-in registration is accepted at the door.

EBC Professional Development Program: Project Management for the Ascending Professional – An Advanced Introduction @ Aon Risk Services Northeast, Inc.

Feb 27 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Are you starting as an Associate, Engineer, or Scientist and want to receive tips or advice on how to manage your workload? Curious as to what makes a project succeed and what makes a project fail? What are the qualities and traits that make a successful project manager? Join the EBC Ascending Professionals Committee for an evening program focused on the do’s and don’ts of project management. In this presentation, you will learn the basics of proper project management, as well as pitfalls that should be avoided. A panel of three project management experts will each provide a brief presentation of their experience with success stories and stumbling blocks of project management. A Q&A session with the attendees and speakers will follow the presentations.

Event Details

Fine PrintCancellations must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, February 25 for a refund. No-shows will be charged. Please keep in mind that online registration for this program will close at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 27. Walk-in registration is accepted at the door.

Adaptation to climate change has emerged as an essential and permanent topic for professional, academic, government and public discussion.

Civil engineers, architects, building owners, real estate investors, insurers, planners, environmental regulators, transportation providers, emergency responders, public health providers, and many others are grappling with how to incorporate the evident need for adaptation and resilience into much of what they do. Academia is also deepening its involvement with this most important and fascinating set of public policy issues.

The growing body of experience and expertise in adaptation is not widely appreciated either within or across the traditional silos that define professions, disciplines and practices. At the same time, there is no regular, ongoing opportunity for adaptation professionals from various fields to meet in Boston to cross-pollinate ideas and share solutions to common problems.

The Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC) and the Sustainable Solutions Lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston have collaborated to establish a quarterly series of half-day Climate Adaptation Forums that will provide cutting-edge thought leadership on adaptation to climate change for environmental and energy professionals, policy makers, municipal officials, NGOs, and practitioners.

These quarterly forums will address everything from infrastructure and design solutions to communication challenges and barriers to implementation to policy solutions to the nexus of climate and equity. Local, national and global speakers will represent forward-thinking institutions, global firms, academia, government and other high level practitioners. Join the ever-growing group of professionals working to address the challenge of climate change adaptation and resiliency at the quarterly forums.

Climate adaptation efforts are often focused on armoring the built environment against climate risks. But given dire climate projections and the costs associated with retrofits and rebuilding, retreat and relocation should be part of the conversation as well. Join the Climate Adaptation Forum for a discussion about retreat, relocation, and climate resilience. Speakers will touch on the financial, legal and human hurdles to retreat. We will hear stories from around the country of communities and individuals that have successfully moved or are currently grappling with the need to relocate due to climate change and sea level rise.

As with past Forums, there will be sufficient of time for audience engagement during the moderated discussion with the speakers.

Managed Retreat Workshop: Legal and Policy Tools for States and Local Communities @ UMass Club -

Mar 1 @ 1:45 pm – 4:30 pm

Organized by the Georgetown Climate Center (GCC) and the Climate Adaptation Forum, this workshop will offer participants the opportunity to engage in a facilitated discussion on managed retreat (i.e. relocating development from vulnerable coastal areas) and the legal and policy considerations impacting land-use decisions and human and natural resources movements in response to sea-level rise.

Participants will share their own work and learn from other experts across disciplines confronting questions about managed retreat as one strategy for adapting to rising seas and increased flooding. In addition, participants will have an opportunity to inform ongoing work by the GCC to create an online Managed Retreat Toolkit which is being designed to support state and local government decisions about how to adapt to rising sea levels (forthcoming in Fall 2019).

Don’t miss the Climate Adaptation Forum – The ‘R’ Word: Retreat, Relocation and Climate Resilience – the morning of March 1. Click here for more details.

Group Registration
For EBC & RISEP Members only – register five attendees for the price of four!Discount will automatically be applied during online registration.

Fine PrintCancellations must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 1 for a refund. No-shows will be charged. Please keep in mind that online registration for this program will close at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, March 4. Walk-in registration is accepted at the door.

Thank you to our Collaborating Organization

Please join the EBC Ascending Professionals Committee and the LSPA Emerging Professionals Committee for an evening program that will focus on health and safety on remediation sites. This program aims to provide a practical overview of various topics within health and safety from ascending professionals peers and seasoned industry veterans. Both contractor and consultant/engineer perspectives will be discussed. Attendees will leave the program with applicable knowledge for their next visit to the field. Ample time for question and answers will be available during the moderated discussion following presentations.

Program Chair & Moderator:

Max Forsythe, Business Development Manager, National Response Corporation (NRC)

Event Details

Fine PrintCancellations must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, March 4 for a refund. No-shows will be charged. Please keep in mind that online registration for this program will close at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6. Walk-in registration is accepted at the door.

When one thinks about maintaining a reliable and functional power-grid, the typical image is adding or upgrading power plants, transmission lines, and substations. However, there’s another angle to consider. Non-wire alternatives are utility system improvements and operating practices that reduce the load on the grid, maintain capacity, and improve grid reliability local to where electricity is actually used. Such concepts include energy efficiency, battery storage, demand-response, distributed generation, microgrids, advanced metering infrastructure, time-of-use rates that help shape behavior, net-metering rules, and more.

New Hampshire’s regulatory authorities and grid managers allow for and encourage each of these strategies, balancing benefits, costs, and risks against traditional power upgrades through least-cost planning. With presentations from industry experts, attendees to this EBC New Hampshire Energy program will learn about the various approaches in New Hampshire, the regulatory and legislative rules to their use, and the ultimate benefit to consumers; reliable power at lower rates.

Continuing Education Certificates are awarded by the EBC for this program (3.5 training contact hours). Please select this option during registration if you wish to receive a certificate.

Program Chair:

Matthew Christie, Associate Director – Advanced Energy, TRC

Speakers:

Michael Behrmann, Director of Business Development, Clean Energy New Hampshire

Additional speakers to be announced shortly.

Following the Speaker Presentations will be a Panel Discussion moderated by Alexander Tang, Project Manager at TRC.

Group Registration
For EBC Members only – register five attendees for the price of four!Discount will automatically be applied during online registration.

Fine PrintCancellations must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 8 for a refund. No-shows will be charged. Please keep in mind that online registration for this program will close at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, March 11. Walk-in registration is accepted at the door.

Thank you to our Silver Sponsor

This EBC New Hampshire Ascending Professionals program will provide an in-depth look at the flow of data from the field to the desks of decision-makers in the environmental consulting industry. A panel of professionals in the fields of GIS, laboratory management, and data analytics will describe their day-to-day jobs and the interaction between field data collection, data evaluation, and client deliverables.

Event Details

Fine PrintCancellations must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, March 11 for a refund. No-shows will be charged. Please keep in mind that online registration for this program will close at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13. Walk-in registration is accepted at the door.